How to disable Gradle daemon in IntelliJ Idea?

Question

I need to disable the Gradle daemon in IntelliJ Idea, because somehow Scala plugin is not working with the daemon (the compilation fails with NullPointerException). I have tried to edit my IntelliJ Gradle build configurations to include a JVM system parameter -Dorg.gradle.daemon=false:

Also I've tried to use --no-daemon flag at the same place (Script parameters and VM options). Also I've tried to specify these options in the Preferences -> Gradle menu of IntelliJ. None of these attempts gave any result, the daemon continue to start, so I have to kill it before running/compiling for the second time.

Neither disabling daemon explicit in ~/.gradle/gradle.properties according to https://docs.gradle.org/current/userguide/gradle_daemon.html#N10473 doesn't have any effect.

How can I disable the Gradle daemon usage in IntelliJ Idea?

Answer 1

IntelliJ interacts with Gradle via the Gradle tooling API, which always uses the daemon. i.e. There is no way to turn it off.

What you could do (after filing a bug report) is not to use the IntelliJ Gradle integration but instead generate IntelliJ project files with

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